Tag Archives: hospitality
Unite launches workers’ survey for hospitality and tourism
Former Ivy worker and Unite the Union Hospitality & Tourism Coordinator Julia Marciniak is today launching an online survey to gather and interpret working conditions and pay in the hospitality sector as many people return to work over the coming weeks. The confidential survey … Continue reading
Stormont Executive must intervene to support livelihoods and skills of hospitality and tourism workers
After meeting Economy Minister, Diane Dodds, Unite delegation calls for direct financial payments to hospitality workers as previous handouts to businesses have not been passed onto workers on reduced hours and facing redundancy Call for ban on exploitative practices such … Continue reading
Unite issues letter to Hastings Group warning of potential litigation over mass redundancy threat
Hospitality bosses are warned that large-scale job losses will result in a mass exodus of skilled workers from sector Unite survey showed that 71 percent of hospitality workers would not return to the industry if made redundant Against a backdrop … Continue reading
Unite writes to Executive Ministers to protest Economy Minister’s rush to reopen hospitality industry without effective infection control
No confidence in role of tourism working group – a business cabal composed overwhelmingly of bosses but excluding totally hospitality workers – to oversee workplace safety Call for Northern Ireland to adopt ‘roving health and safety reps’ like Scotland and introduce limited reopening with continued … Continue reading
Hospitality bosses cannot be allowed to leverage jobs threat to force unsafe reopening
Workers call for no erosion of two-metre social distancing in the workplace as vital Infection control precaution Opportunities for workforce up-skilling during COVID-shutdown must be explored as part of a new deal for hospitality workers Unite hospitality organiser Neil Moore … Continue reading









